Breastplate

[Lansquenet59]

Thank you for sharing. I did not know this plate reinforcement system. It's very interesting.

[fernando]

It must have been hell to keep head (and body) inside these apparatuses; in a warm/hot climate, they become as hot as stoves. In reading chronicles of the (Portuguese) discoveries period in India, those who wore armour couldn't stand the heat and often had to take them off ... and apparently not the reinforced version.

[ulfberth]

Originally Posted by fernando

It must have been hell to keep head (and body) inside these apparatuses; in a warm/hot climate, they become as hot as stoves. In reading chronicles of the (Portuguese) discoveries period in India, those who wore armour couldn't stand the heat and often had to take them off ... and apparently not the reinforced version.

take in account the padded liner in helmets and gambason worn under the armor

[Victrix]

Originally Posted by fernando

It must have been hell to keep head (and body) inside these apparatuses; in a warm/hot climate, they become as hot as stoves. In reading chronicles of the (Portuguese) discoveries period in India, those who wore armour couldn't stand the heat and often had to take them off ... and apparently not the reinforced version.

Hence the popularity of wearing mail armour in the Middle East and other hot places. Air could circulate and heat evaporate.

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Victrix

Hence the popularity of wearing mail armour in the Middle East and other hot places. Air could circulate and heat evaporate.

Yes; no sauna .

[ulfberth]

another example of a reinforcement breastplate, to be bolted on and worn on top of the regular breastplate and make it bulletproof, weight 6,662 kg, era circa 1630 origin Italian , Metropolitan Museum.